Head Coach Guy Kalland (25th season)
Record at Carleton: 330-281
Career Record: same
Phone: (507)222-4055
Email: gkalland@carleton.edu

Guy Kalland enters his 25th year at the helm of the Carleton men’s basketball program as one of the most successful coaches in the MIAC and one of only four active conference coaches with 300 or more wins at his respective institution.

A 1974 graduate of Concordia College-Moorhead, Kalland has led his team to the MIAC playoffs 15 times in the past 19 seasons and 16 times overall. The 2005-06 season was one of the most magical in the 95-year history of Carleton men’s basketball, as Kalland and the Knights reeled off 17 straight MIAC regular-season wins en route to the program’s first conference title since 1965-66. The Knights advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history as well and Kalland recorded his 300th victory when the Knights beat Gustavus Adolphus in the MIAC Playoff semifinals.

Kalland, a former assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Minnesota from 1979-80, spent four years at Inver Hills (Minn.) Community College, leading the team to a 1982 state championship and runner-up honors in Region XIII. Kalland also coached for three years at Eagle Bend (Minn.) High School and Cannon Falls (Minn.) High School.

He runs numerous successful basketball camps during the summer, and is a professor and department chair of physical education, athletics and recreation at Carleton. Kalland and his wife, Linda, have a daughter, Abby, a 2004 graduate of Carleton who is currently director of basketball operations for the University of Minnesota women’s basketball program.

Assistant Coach Jim Hayes (fifth season)
Phone: 507-222-5841
Email: jihayes@carleton.edu
Jim Hayes moves into his fifth season as an assistant coach with the Knights and serves as the program's recruiting coordinator. Hayes was a two-time all-conference player at Hamline University and a 10-year assistant coach at his alma mater. He graduated from Hamline in 1994, served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Pipers for the 1994-95 season before moving into the top assistant coach’s role from 1995–2004. He is married to Katherine (Rice) Hayes, a 1992 graduate of Carleton. They reside in St. Paul with their daughter, Sevona (4), and son, T.J. (2).

Assistant Coach Ben Davis (first season)
Davis worked as an assistant coach with the men’s basketball program at Macalester College during the 2008-09 season and has spent the last three summers as director/founder of the successful Minnesota Fury AAU program. Davis knowledge of the Minnesota high school basketball scene includes previous stints on the coaching staffs at Blaine High School and Monticello High School. He also spent one year working with the Minnesota Magic AAU system.
He lives in Minneapolis and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in coaching education through the University of Ohio.

Assistant Coach Matt Christensen (first season)
Christensen, a Northfield, Minn. native, played four seasons at Carleton’s cross-town rival, St. Olaf College, where he graduated in 2009 with a B.A. in political science. Christensen was the Oles starting point guard last year, ranking fifth among conference players in assists and was one of the league’s premier defenders. In addition to working several basketball camps, he was head coach of the Wear Out the Net 17-and-under AAU team.